Improving Online Bin Covering with Little Advice
Andrej Brodnik, Bengt J. Nilsson, Gordana Vujovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09004 https://
Quantum cosmological perturbations in bouncing models with mimetic dark matter
Idaiane L. Machado, D\^eivid R. da Silva, Nelson Pinto-Neto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06901
Die re:publica hat dem Boomer Stefan emotional und inhaltlich eine Menge gebracht. Sie hat mir Mut gemacht, da sich viele junge Menschen engagieren. Doch natürlich sind da auch Fragen und Sorgen. Der besonders persönliche Teil 3 meiner #rp25-Impressionen.
Calamus 15 O drops of me!
It's a remarkably morbid poem for Whitman, literally about blood dropping from wounds, corrupting his poetry.
stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops
But he turns this blood into a sort of virtue that infuses his poem, starting with an inversion. It's not "saturate yourself with the drops". Instead it's saturate them with yourself.
Saturate them with yourself, all ashamed and wet,
Glow upon all I have written or shall write, bleeding drops,
Let it all be seen in your light, blushing drops.
I can make a case for a queer reading of recognizing gay shame and overcoming it. To take the stigma of homosexuality and turn it into a virtue, "let it all be seen in your light".
But I think I may be out on a limb with that interpretation. Whitman's not typically a writer about shame. And I think "gay shame" doesn't apply well as a concept in the 1850s, that's a malady that comes with a backlash against modern gay identity.
Polarized Neutrons at ISIS: Recent Developments And Highlights
Polly Mitchell, Holly I. Barnfield, Mark Devonport, Kirill Nemkovski, G{\o}ran J. Nilsen, Peter Galsworthy, Gavin B. G. Stenning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05148
Computer scientist Greg Nelson and I presented "Following AI's Footsteps from School to Society" at the 2025 UMaine Faculty Institute https://mycampus.maine.edu/web/uc-faculty-portal/faculty-institute-2025 including the IMPACT RISK framew…